Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
_Chhappan kula Yadava._
Footnote 4.20.3:
_Qu._ Japhet? [?].
Footnote 4.20.4:
Also called _Vaivaswata Manu_—‘the man, son of the sun.’
Footnote 4.20.5:
Ila, the earth—the Saxon _Ertha_. The Germans chiefly worshipped
Tuisco or Teutates and Ertha, who are the Budha or Ila of the Rajputs
[?].
Footnote 4.20.6:
A male divinity with the Rajputs, the Tatars, and ancient Germans.
Footnote 4.20.7:
‘Triple Energy’ [‘he who strides over the three worlds’], the Hermes
Triplex of the Egyptians. [There is no cult of Budha at Dwārka.]
Footnote 4.20.8:
I shall here subjoin an extract of the rise and progress of
Vaishnavism as written at my desire by the Mukhya of the temple:
“Twenty-five years of the Dwapar (the brazen age) were yet unexpired,
when the incarnation (_avatar_) of Sri Krishna took place. Of these,
eleven were passed at Gokul,[4.20.8.A] and fourteen at Mathura. There
he used to manifest himself personally, especially at Govardhan. But
when the Kaliyug (the iron age) commenced, he retired to Dwarka, an
island separated by the ocean from Bharatkand,[4.20.8.B] where he
passed a hundred years before he went to heaven. In Samvat 937 (A.D.
881) God decreed that the Hindu faith should be overturned, and that
the Turushka[4.20.8.C] should rule. Then the _jizya_, or capitation
tax, was inflicted on the head of the Hindu. Their faith also suffered
much from the Jains and the various infidel (_asura_) sects which
abounded. The Jains were so hostile, that Brahma manifested himself in
the shape of Sankaracharya who destroyed them and their religion at
Benares. In Gujarat, by their magic, they made the moon appear at
Amavas.[4.20.8.D] Sankara foretold to its prince, Siddhraj,[4.20.8.E]
the flood then approaching, who escaped in a boat and fled to Toda, on
which occasion all the Vidyas[4.20.8.F] (magicians) in that country
perished.” [For a more correct version of Krishna’s legend see Growse,
_Mathura_, 3rd ed.; for Vaishnavism, R. G. Bhandarkar, “Vaisnavism,
Saivism and Minor Religious Systems,” in _Grundriss Indo-Arischen
Philologie und Altertumskunde_, 1913.
Footnote 4.20.8.A:
A small town in the Jumna, below Mathura. Hence one of Krishna’s
titles is Gokulnath, ‘Lord of Gokul.’
Footnote 4.20.8.B:
The channel which separates the island of Dwarka from the mainland is
filled up, except in spring tides. I passed it when it was dry.
Footnote 4.20.8.C:
We possess no record of the invasion of India in A.D. 881, by the
Turki tribes, half a century after Mamun’s expedition from Zabulistan
against Chitor, in the reign of Rawal Khuman [?].
Footnote 4.20.8.D:
The ides of the month, when the moon is obscured.
Footnote 4.20.8.E:
He ruled Samvat 1151 (A.D. 1095) to S. 1201 (A.D. 1145).
Footnote 4.20.8.F:
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